Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Penn, Brown, CalTech, JHU, and UT-Austin to Require Standardized Testing for Admissions

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@Rivet2000

So MIT rigor is greater than Bowdoin rigor causing them to use the SAT to better access applications. Should then all such rigorous schools use SAT scores to do the same?

I think this is the sort of logical step that @MITChris expresses concern about, in posts like this one,

@MITChris

By far, the thing I am the least comfortable about / most frustrated with re: our testing decision — a local institutional choice based on 50 years of research in the context of a highly specific education — is the way it has been taken as a universal statement re: Testing Is Always Good At Everything And We Should Not Be Worried About It. That’s why in the original blog post, we had 200% text in footnotes trying to explain the research. But that’s not what gets circulated on Twitter (or CollegeConfidential).